Improvement in medical compounds for cure of fever and ague



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

OSCAR SOIDMORE, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS FOR CURE OF FEVER AND AGUE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 119,053, datedSeptember 19, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OSCAR SoInMoRE, of the city and county of Albany,State of New York,

have invented or discovered anew and useful 1 medical compound which Idenominate Fever and Ague Ourative; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a description of the same, and ingredients composing thecompound and their proportions, and also the manner of compounding thesame.

My invention relates to a medical compound for the cure of the diseaseknown as fever and ague, and consists of the following ingredients,viz.: Sage, boneset, Peruvian bark, and gin, compounded in the followingmanner: To make one ease is of long continuance, there is a tendency todropsical swellings. The several ingredients in my compound are intendedto act on the system in such a Way as to strengthen those parts usuallyaffected, and offer their remedial virtues as curatives or preventivesof the several affections incident to that disease. The sage acts toaffect the head and stomach; being soothing, stimulating, strengthening,and warming, it quiets the nerves, excites the appetite, and warms thebody and stomach. The boneset acts to affect the stomach and all thepores of the body being warming and strengthening, it quickens thecirculation of the blood and excites the glands, and tends to promoteperspiration. Rue in the same proportion may be substituted for the saidboneset, yet the boneset is preferable. The Peruvian bark affects thestomach, and acts as a tonic, and strengthens the whole system,

and aids nature to cast off the fever, and has its remedial value infever and ague.

Havmg described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

The medical compound for fever and ague, compounded of the severalingredients in the proportions and manner substantially as set forth,

OSCAR SOIDMORE.

Witnesses:

- ALEX. SELKIRK,

CHAS. SELKIRK.

